March 29th, 2011 at 8:49 am by
Anne

It’s still hard to believe that Elizabeth Taylor is gone, isn’t it? And even if you have the purest of hearts, you have to wonder what is going to happen to all of the gems that she had.
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The collection in total is estimated to be worth over $150 million and apparently is going to be auctioned off at Christie’s Auction House. Christie’s declined to comment and there is no word on what pieces will and won’t be auctioned off.
Part of that collection is the famous Krupp diamond that Richard Burton gave her. That baby weighs in at 33.91 karats! Oh to be a multi-millionaire when that beautiful rock goes up at Christie’s.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor became quite an expert at gems according to President and CEO of Luxury Jewels of Beverly Hills Peter Sedghi:
“She had the most amazing eye,” “To be honest, she knew more than I did [about jewelry]. When you would show her stones, she would tell you the origin, if it’s good quality, bad quality, where it came from.”
Lorraine Schwartz (friend and jeweler) says that Elizabeth was always receiving pieces of jewelery and not just from husbands:
“The studios, in order to make her happy, they’d always give her jewelry. So she grew up collecting it,” she explains. “People always gave her gifts … it was something that she learned to love.” And she took great care of them, too. “She [had] collections and collections, and rooms. She [knew] where every single piece was. [It was] amazing.”
Can you imagine what it would look like to see every piece together at one time?